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posted by Roy Schestowitz on Aug 13, 2025,
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    NVIDIA released today the stable version of the NVIDIA 580 series of their graphics drivers for NVIDIA GPUs on Linux, BSD, and Solaris systems.
  2. GNOME 48.4 Finally Improves Update Notifications in GNOME Software
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  5. Security Leftovers
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  6. Open Hardware/Modding: Raspberry Pi and More
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  7. today's leftovers
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  8. Free, Libre, and Open Source Software Leftovers
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  9. HowTo Geek Coverage of GNU/Linux and Homelabs
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  10. Hardware Leftovers
    mostly Linux or Open Hardware
  11. Applications: Istio 1.27.0 and Kdenlive
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  16. today's howtos
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  17. Mozilla: Firefox Meets Mindless Buzzwords, Users' Anger
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  18. Fedora / Red Hat / IBM Leftovers
    LVFS and moree
  19. 5 Open-Source Apps for Essays and Research Papers
    Writing term papers and essays is part of the college experience
  20. Let’s Make a Free Software Jubilee Happen
    Free software is everywhere, running the world’s biggest systems and your smallest screens, so why not throw a Jubilee in its honor
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  22. Games: SteamOS, Moonsigil Atlas, GE-Proton 10-11, and More
    12 new stories from GamingOnLinux
  23. MakeUseOf and XDA on Desktop/Laptop GNU/Linux
    a handful of new articles
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    new from XDA
  25. XDA's Latest Proxmox Articles
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  26. GNU/Linux Leftovers
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